"Women friends fill up a certain space in our hearts," my mother told me following a presentation in Omaha, "and romantic love fills another. Family, though, has a special chamber that expands and expands." She'd widened her hands to show me how large a family place could be. "There's room for sunsets and rainbows and shiny rocks that remind us of our strengths, for dogs and horses and cats too. Room for the giggles of toddlers you don't even know. And over all is God's love, which flows through all the chambers, seeping into cracks and filling up the empty spaces until you're so full you almost cannot breathe. It's God who shines in the faces of all those other people looking back at you. You don't really need Forest Stapleton or anyone else."
- The Daughter's Walk, Jane Kirkpatrick, pg. 332
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